Posts Tagged with ‘WW II’
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Stalingrad, a Novel – Theodore Plievier
27 Sep 2018War
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Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing
18 Sep 2018War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental…
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The Sea and Poison — Shūsaku Endō, confronting War Crimes
31 Jul 2018Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice…
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Barefoot Gen, a Japanese Graphic Novel in Ten Volumes: Hiroshima
15 Jun 2018THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not…
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Tadeusz Borowski — The Camps are Us
23 Aug 2017Massacre and genocide have been on the scroll of human history since cracked skulls left their sure signs, then in…
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Zone of Emptiness – A Japanese Novel of WWII
25 Jul 2017Zone of Emptiness by the Japanese novelist Hiroshi Noma, when it was published in 1952 after years of military censorship,…
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Japan’s WW II Cinema: Bucking Up the Home Front
28 Apr 2017Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s is difficult for many. No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs.…
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Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
02 Feb 2017It is hard to visualize, walking around Modena or Cremona or Verona, Italy as I have recently, that gangs of…
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Andre Malraux — Man in his Violence
14 Dec 2016Andre Malraux was the quintessential adventurer-intellectual of the between the World War years. Man’s Hope was on 1960s high school…
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The Twenty-Three Days of the City of Alba
30 Nov 2016World traveling, wine loving tourists might be forgiven for not associating the famed, vine-covered hills of Piemonte, Italy, with savage, civil…
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Johnny The Partisan — Fighting in the Hills of Asti and Alba, Italy
17 Nov 2016The French resistance to the Nazis in WW II was much celebrated after the war. Whatever their actual resistance and…
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The Face of War– Martha Gellhorn, Seven Wars
08 Jul 2016Martha Gellhorn (1908 – 1998,) wrote much and lived more. As Bill Buford, the fiction editor at “The New Yorker”…